Search Again: Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 From: John May Date: Thursday, November 4, 2004 Time: 10:42:46 am >At 11:09 AM +0200 11/4/04, Kaj Hjorth wrote: >>Hello list, >>this has certainly been addressed before >>so excuse a dumb question. >> >>What do we benefit from updating to 9.3.0 > >BIND 9.2.x doesn't have a reliable way to disable IPv6 support in >the resolver routine. This causes a problem with certain BSD-based >operating systems, such as Mac OS X, whose IPv6 support has some >sort of problem. When named version 9.2.x tries to contact another >server whose hostname has an AAAA record, in addition to an A >record, the connection fails only after several seconds, long enough >that most web browsers time out. > >For most of the Internet, IPv6 isn't yet working, so this connection >attempt will pretty much always fail. Ideally, it should fail >immediately. > >BIND 9.3.0 has an undocumented "-4" command line option that can >disable IPv6 support at runtime. > >>and where can one see the Bind version currently in use? > >Use this shell command: > >/usr/sbin/named -v > >If your named is not in /usr/sbin, it's probably in /usr/local/sbin. > >Chris Buxton >Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy >Customer Service and Sales Engineer Chris - So, do you suggest upgrading? If so, will Men and Mice be issuing a QuickDNS update to include BIND 9.3.0? - John -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- John May : President <http://www.pointinspace.com> Point In Space Internet Solutions jmay@pointinspace.com Professional Lasso / PHP / MySQL / FileMaker Pro Hosting

Messages In This Thread: Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Kaj Hjorth on Nov 4, 2004 at 1:10:24 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:20:32 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:42:46 am Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 12:13:59 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 3:37:29 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 3:58:05 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by John May on Nov 4, 2004 at 7:26:34 pm Re: Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 7:54:38 pm